Re: The Duchess Project: 1940 Super 8 Convertible Sedan
Posted by Joe Santana On 2011/5/25 13:26:47
HOOD: Came home after work to find that Elke, my housekeeper, had wrapped the hood in a quilt. I would have preferred to see a rolled roast, but the hood is definitely protected until it can go on the Duchess.
REAR DOORS: The belt moulding has to be cut to fit around the hinge. I struggled with installing the latch until I figured it out. Quite easy to get everything in there and working. I will take pix when I do the right-hand rear door.
PAINT: The trunk lid and right front fender are done. The front doors, the last pieces before the body, I delivered this morning. Again, can't take my eyes of the color and the workmanship. Stunning, esp with the chrome and trim.
TOP: The Sonnendecke tan on tan top has been ordered from EZ-ON for a 1940 160 convertible sedan. Beaverton Auto Upholstery to install.
My relatively new neighbors, Kevin and Lisa, came over last night to help me remove the front doors to I could take them to Canyon Auto Repair. Her father sold Studebakers back in the day. I forgot to tell her I was in a musical at the SFO opera house sponsored by Studebaker and produced by the Music Corporation of America to introduce the 1953 Studebaker at a national dealers meeting. (I was a young Studebacker brother making conestoga wagons, a news boy announcing the 1929 stock market crash, and a couple of other scenes where we sang "When You Give More Than You Promise, You Can't Fail." So much for wishful thinking. The new Studebaker was beautiful, gorgeous. Poppy red. Hardly any chrome (In my opinion all the later year Studebakers were goobered up with too much junk. Someone stole that plain scoop on the side for the first Mustangs before they added the fake vent. Did Dutch Darrin style the 53 Stude? Beautiful lines and so advanced. America just didn't get it. Not saying I'd restore one, but thought about it.
CHROME: Rear window frame, wiper mounts, seat adjustment collar, and horn ring ought to be ready today.
MINUTIA: It's obsession, I know, but I replaced the black shifter boot with the brown one when I remembered that the original was brown and replaced with black vinyl by the upholsterer in 1962 or so. I received fresh bowdrill. The old order had dried out. I should have applied it to the weatherstripping when I first received it from Steele Rubber. The stainless steel weatherstrip channel I lost...it fell off the car when the wood in the center posts got so bad it wouldn't hold a screw and the duct tape got wet, so off it went... for 1940 convertibles I located at Bob Drake Reproductions, Grants Pass, Oregon. $20 for a 3-foot strip. They should advertise through Steele Rubber by enclosing a flyer when Steele sells some of the weatherstrip. So I'll cut a foot off, drill some holes and the other center post will be finished.
David Moe, Seattle Packard Co, is finding some odds and ends for me. Talked to him the other day.
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REAR DOORS: The belt moulding has to be cut to fit around the hinge. I struggled with installing the latch until I figured it out. Quite easy to get everything in there and working. I will take pix when I do the right-hand rear door.
PAINT: The trunk lid and right front fender are done. The front doors, the last pieces before the body, I delivered this morning. Again, can't take my eyes of the color and the workmanship. Stunning, esp with the chrome and trim.
TOP: The Sonnendecke tan on tan top has been ordered from EZ-ON for a 1940 160 convertible sedan. Beaverton Auto Upholstery to install.
My relatively new neighbors, Kevin and Lisa, came over last night to help me remove the front doors to I could take them to Canyon Auto Repair. Her father sold Studebakers back in the day. I forgot to tell her I was in a musical at the SFO opera house sponsored by Studebaker and produced by the Music Corporation of America to introduce the 1953 Studebaker at a national dealers meeting. (I was a young Studebacker brother making conestoga wagons, a news boy announcing the 1929 stock market crash, and a couple of other scenes where we sang "When You Give More Than You Promise, You Can't Fail." So much for wishful thinking. The new Studebaker was beautiful, gorgeous. Poppy red. Hardly any chrome (In my opinion all the later year Studebakers were goobered up with too much junk. Someone stole that plain scoop on the side for the first Mustangs before they added the fake vent. Did Dutch Darrin style the 53 Stude? Beautiful lines and so advanced. America just didn't get it. Not saying I'd restore one, but thought about it.
CHROME: Rear window frame, wiper mounts, seat adjustment collar, and horn ring ought to be ready today.
MINUTIA: It's obsession, I know, but I replaced the black shifter boot with the brown one when I remembered that the original was brown and replaced with black vinyl by the upholsterer in 1962 or so. I received fresh bowdrill. The old order had dried out. I should have applied it to the weatherstripping when I first received it from Steele Rubber. The stainless steel weatherstrip channel I lost...it fell off the car when the wood in the center posts got so bad it wouldn't hold a screw and the duct tape got wet, so off it went... for 1940 convertibles I located at Bob Drake Reproductions, Grants Pass, Oregon. $20 for a 3-foot strip. They should advertise through Steele Rubber by enclosing a flyer when Steele sells some of the weatherstrip. So I'll cut a foot off, drill some holes and the other center post will be finished.
David Moe, Seattle Packard Co, is finding some odds and ends for me. Talked to him the other day.
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